Batavia, NY, USA
Driving on the highway- I saw a teardrop craft that crossed the length of the sky in less than 2 seconds.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-02
- Where
- Batavia, NY, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 42.998, -78.188 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-batavia-ny-2022-356460
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 13 documented reports from Batavia, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
- New York logged 54 sightings in 2022.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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